Innovate!: How Great Companies Get Started in Terrible TimesISBN: 978-0-470-56058-7
Hardcover
240 pages
May 2010
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Thomas A. Meyer, MBA, CLP, is the Chief Innovation Officer
of St. Louis University. Meyer's career in innovation management
spans more than thirty years. He created the Domestic and
International Intellectual Property Office at Anheuser-Busch, Inc.,
in 1980. He coauthored the pioneering book on intellectual property
management, An Executive's Complete Guide to Licensing, in 1988.
For more than twenty years, Meyer has consulted for many Fortune
500 and privately owned companies in the areas of licensing,
franchising, new product development, and marketing. A partial list
of clients includes Coca-Cola, Times Mirror Company, Ralston
Purina, and CBS Radio and TV.
Meyer is also an accomplished entrepreneur who has founded four successful companies in the manufacturing, retail, and services industries. He has been responsible for developing some of the first sustainable products including the first 100% recycled plastic bottle in 1991 and the first bio-based automotive commodity chemicals in 1994. Meyer's new professional passion is building bridges between industry and universities to ensure America's innovation leadership in the world.
Meyer is also an accomplished entrepreneur who has founded four successful companies in the manufacturing, retail, and services industries. He has been responsible for developing some of the first sustainable products including the first 100% recycled plastic bottle in 1991 and the first bio-based automotive commodity chemicals in 1994. Meyer's new professional passion is building bridges between industry and universities to ensure America's innovation leadership in the world.